Have to love having this on the schedule...

[jaihawk]

I had to take several pre-tests to show me how biased I am towards anything and everything... Lovely!

 

[Havoc34]

 

[Baron Winnebago]

I get paid whether I'm in bullshit training or not so YOLO

 

[Cornicator]

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I had to take several pre-tests to show me how biased I am towards anything and everything... Lovely!

I'm a Director of Learning & Development. I can promise you 1 of 3 things is driving this initiative:

1. Your overall employee engagement and satisfaction is low. Morale has taken a nose dive, especially at the individual contributor level. Employees are complaining to HR and leaders about a lot of things, including a lack of diversity, usually at the top. Therefore the company is trying to appease the noisy minority (no pun intended.) But in my experience, the people who bitch about lack of diversity will bitch about everything and they are never happy. I've found they usually suck at their jobs as well.

2. Your company is potentially seeking new business, and that potential massive client is wanting your company to show cause about your DEI and fairness in hiring initiatives. Only a handful of people in your org will really know if this the case, and they aren't going to share with you that the motivation is bull shit. Therefore, you and many of your peers are just there for show. And that sucks, but it might pay off in the long run.

3. Or some Executive just has a hard on for this type of stuff and wants to add it to their resume. I've seen a lot of resumes for potential Senior Leaders and C Suite candidates. If someone built and lead a DEI initiative, its usually the first thing that shows up at the top of their resume.

 

[Huskersballz]

I'm a Director of Learning & Development. I can promise you 1 of 3 things is driving this initiative:

1. Your overall employee engagement and satisfaction is low. Morale has taken a nose dive, especially at the individual contributor level. Employees are complaining to HR and leaders about a lot of things, including a lack of diversity, usually at the top. Therefore the company is trying to appease the noisy minority (no pun intended.) But in my experience, the people who bitch about lack of diversity will bitch about everything and they are never happy. I've found they usually suck at their jobs as well.

2. Your company is potentially seeking new business, and that potential massive client is wanting your company to show cause about your DEI and fairness in hiring initiatives. Only a handful of people in your org will really know if this the case, and they aren't going to share with you that the motivation is bull shit. Therefore, you and many of your peers are just there for show. And that sucks, but it might pay off in the long run.

3. Or some Executive just has a hard on for this type of stuff and wants to add it to their resume. I've seen a lot of resumes for potential Senior Leaders and C Suite candidates. If someone built and lead a DEI initiative, it’s usually the first thing that shows up at the top of their resume.

It’s a big deal for some Private Equity firms as well if the company is looking for investors

 

[greybeardedchild]

OT, but I've taken to selecting Non-binary in the gender section of important forms. Hope to someday get a leg up on all the cisgender heterosexuals.

 

[Hedley Lamarr]

Now you'll know how to treat people differently based on their color and sexuality instead of just treating everyone the same.

 

[David Webb]

Call in sick.

 

[Juro]

When they start saying African American, correct them with 'black' and that African American is offensive to Jamaicans.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

When they start saying African American, correct them with 'black' and that African American is offensive to Jamaicans.

Capital B there, bigot

 

[Juro]

Capital B there, bigot

Blame auto correct then! If it don't capitalize it, then I ain't the racist one!

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

Great opportunity to claim "time blindness" (which is somehow a 'real' thing in DEI world), show up 88 minutes late, then raise hell if they give you any trouble about your "disability."

 

[Irv]

For the love of God can we keep the politics over in the insane asylum?

 

[Juro]

For the love of God can we keep the politics over in the insane asylum?

This isn't politics yet; it's a social and corporate topic so far.

 

[Kaladin]

For the love of God can we keep the politics over in the insane asylum?

No it needs to be here too

Let’s put all of our cards on the table

No more pussyfooting around

 

[jaihawk]

I'm a Director of Learning & Development. I can promise you 1 of 3 things is driving this initiative:

1. Your overall employee engagement and satisfaction is low. Morale has taken a nose dive, especially at the individual contributor level. Employees are complaining to HR and leaders about a lot of things, including a lack of diversity, usually at the top. Therefore the company is trying to appease the noisy minority (no pun intended.) But in my experience, the people who bitch about lack of diversity will bitch about everything and they are never happy. I've found they usually suck at their jobs as well.

2. Your company is potentially seeking new business, and that potential massive client is wanting your company to show cause about your DEI and fairness in hiring initiatives. Only a handful of people in your org will really know if this the case, and they aren't going to share with you that the motivation is bull shit. Therefore, you and many of your peers are just there for show. And that sucks, but it might pay off in the long run.

3. Or some Executive just has a hard on for this type of stuff and wants to add it to their resume. I've seen a lot of resumes for potential Senior Leaders and C Suite candidates. If someone built and lead a DEI initiative, its usually the first thing that shows up at the top of their resume.

1. Employee engagement survey stats came back really good.
2. Would be surprised if this is the case.
3. We're based out of France and the French seem to have a hard on for this type of shit...

 

[jaihawk]

Great opportunity to claim "time blindness" (which is somehow a 'real' thing in DEI world), show up 88 minutes late, then raise hell if they give you any trouble about your "disability."

Considering that some of the slides I've seen from other companies state that "timeliness" is a white privilege thing, I may start not being timely and state that I'm embracing my anti-whiteness. That said, from now on I'm going to claim Two Races as my ethnicity since when my sister took her 23 and me, we came back 1% African.

 

[nja13]

That said, from now on I'm going to claim Two Races as my ethnicity since when my sister took her 23 and me, we came back 1% African.

You're a minority of a minority! That has to be good for some intersectionality points.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

For the love of God can we keep the politics over in the insane asylum?

I've banned myself

 

[FLusker]

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